Waiting for results
February 14th, 2007 by Richie
In general, I am a very impatient guy; always wanting things to be done right,freaking now! And to be really honest, I feel most of the times that I can do a better job than others.
With 5.0.3, I have learnt a lot about myself, my abilities and the lack of them, etc.
I have realised that to see the blue sky, we must have to bear the rain and let the clouds go away; to get a million downloads, one must work hard over a period of time that too consistently, persistently; to become better, we must acknowledge feedback , even harsh feedback and proceed doing it; that to smile at the end , we have to face some temporary sorrow and pain; that I have more patience than I ever acknowledged; that I have a great team who are putting up with unreasonable demands because it is ME who is demanding it; that life is good, just that we must take that extra effort to see it.
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Hi Ritchie. First of all my sincere thanks for all the effort you guys are putting into 5.0.3. It’s not an easy feat at all. I fell that I was one of the guys who gave you the “harsh feedback” you mention; all I can say now it that I just meant to be honest.
Managing a project of the size and dimension of VTiger is surely very hard. As it is now, the project is also very hard for us outsider to contribute. That’s why I insisted so much on you guys moving on to “managing” VTiger development, instead of “doing” the development yourselves. I’m really happy to see that the you guys got the point, and are going a big step forward in your effort.
There’s a lot of talk about leadership in software. Most of the times we think of it as a glamourous thing - of great people like Linus Torvalds, or Larry Wall, or Guido van Rossum; of defining new architectures; and, why not?, how our product will change the world. But there’s the practical side of it. Keeping the bug tracker clean, the docs clean, running tests and making the builds - that’s the ugly stuff that nobody wants to do, but that’s what makes a project successful. That’s where a central authority really makes the difference. Linux is thirving not because Linus Torvalds coding abilities, no matter how good he is; Linux stands today because Linus has been for +10 years the one who revise patches, merging things that make the most difference, and keeping the entire thing clean and consistent.
Thanks you guys for all that you are doing. It’s been a hell of a ride, I’m sure. But if you get it right, victory will be on your side. Just keep going.
Hello Carlos!
No offence taken Carlos. vtiger is as much yours as mine. So there is no offence at all taken. In fact, I did not even think of that comment in mind, I was just stating it as I felt at that moment in time.
About outsiders contributing, yes, we are still not that easy to contribute to. This will change from the next few releases.
Thanks for the encouragement. Need all that is available.
At times, it is really really painful and disgusting. But then, I do realise that this is a very very vital stage which demands these steps so that vtiger becomes the standard.
This pain is mandatory and we will go through it.